

A House divided – what now for the budget?
- By Jordan Griffiths
- . Mar 20, 2025
With the Minister of Finance having delivered the Budget Speech last week and various political parties indicating that they will not support the budget, the

What Rasool said: insights into the ANC mind?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Mar 19, 2025
Ebrahim Rasool, the former South African Ambassador to the US whom the Trump administration kicked out of the country over the weekend, has been thrown

Trevor Noah: was integration a bad idea?
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 19, 2025
South African expatriate comedian Trevor Noah set the internet on fire in a recent podcast when he questioned whether “integration was the right move”. “That

Who pays for the ANC’s failures?
- By Daniel Eloff
- . Mar 19, 2025
South Africa’s latest budget debate has exposed a fault line which has existed for decades—one that separates those who seek pragmatic solutions from those who

The Wilgenhof settlement: what disturbs me about it
- By Daily Friend
- . Mar 19, 2025
Dear Editor I was initially relieved to learn that Stellenbosch University, and the institution’s oldest residence, Wilgenhof, (and its esteemed alumni association) had resolved the

The fusing of politics and tech
- By Steven Boykey Sidley
- . Mar 18, 2025
There is something inevitable about the Trump/Musk duopoly currently wreaking havoc on previously solid global and domestic political pillars. Depending on where you sit on

Read the Budget: it’s your money
- By Chris Patterson
- . Mar 18, 2025
“South Africa could come to a standstill,” I wrote in August last year, after the Appropriation Bill was passed by Parliament. Not until days before

How Woke activism destroyed UCT’s Professor Bongani Mayosi
- By Richard Wilkinson
- . Mar 18, 2025
This month marks a decade since the advent of Fallism and Woke activism at the University of Cape Town. Amid the turmoil and destruction, one

How “South Africans” do it
- By Terence Corrigan
- . Mar 17, 2025
I’m pleased I can write this; a few days ago, I couldn’t. The power was out. It went on Wednesday evening and just stayed off.